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Thank you to everyone who joined Advent of Code 2025 in Rust! It was inspiring to see many Rustaceans solving algorithmic puzzles, and celebrating the holiday coding season with the community. Before the Advent began, Vitaly Bragilevsky published a blog post on how to use AI in Advent of Code challenge responsibly and …
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This post explores Chain-of-Draft (CoD), an innovative prompting technique introduced in a Zoom AI Research paper Chain of Draft: Thinking Faster by Writing Less, that revolutionizes how models approach reasoning tasks. While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has been the go-to method for enhancing model reasoning, CoD …
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In this post, we demonstrate hosting Voxtral models on Amazon SageMaker AI endpoints using vLLM and the Bring Your Own Container (BYOC) approach. vLLM is a high-performance library for serving large language models (LLMs) that features paged attention for improved memory management and tensor parallelism for …
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To address the need for businesses to quickly analyze information and unlock actionable insights, we are announcing Analytics Agent, a new feature that is seamlessly integrated into the GenAI IDP Accelerator. With this feature, users can perform advanced searches and complex analyses using natural language queries …
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In this post, we demonstrate how to implement a predictive maintenance solution using Foundation Models (FMs) on Amazon Bedrock, with a case study of Amazon's manufacturing equipment within their fulfillment centers. The solution is highly adaptable and can be customized for other industries, including oil and gas, …
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I struggled to get started. For ages, I kept putting off building this website, creating a new programming language for Visual Studio, and coming up with fresh color themes. Each project looked overwhelming, and I couldn’t find the time or motivation to jump in. It all just felt like too much at once. But when a …
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Many languages¹ that have exceptions also have a finally clause, so you can write try { ⟦ stuff ⟧ } finally { always(); } A quick checks shows that this control structure exists in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, but not C++. C++ says, "We have try...finally at home." Link to article: …
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Delivering high-quality software requires clarity, speed, and collaboration. That’s why we introduced the New Test Run Hub in Azure Test Plans. A modern, streamlined experience designed to make test execution and analysis fast and Link to article: …
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What is Mark of the Web? Mark of the Web (MOTW) is a Windows security feature that protects users from potentially unsafe files downloaded from the internet. When you download a file, Windows automatically adds a special metadata tag indicating the file originated from an untrusted source and may contain harmful …
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OpenAI is strengthening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection attacks using automated red teaming trained with reinforcement learning. This proactive discover-and-patch loop helps identify novel exploits early and harden the browser agent’s defenses as AI becomes more agentic. Link to article: …
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More than one million customers around the world now use OpenAI to empower their teams and unlock new opportunities. This post highlights how companies like PayPal, Virgin Atlantic, BBVA, Cisco, Moderna, and Canva are transforming the way work gets done with AI. Link to article: …
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I am excited to announce the release of my new book, Build and Deploy Apps using Azure Developer CLI, a practical, hands-on guide for developers and teams who want to streamline cloud-native application deployments on Microsoft Azure using the Azure Developer CLI (azd). Modern application delivery often gets slowed …
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Microsoft advises initializing reference type static fields inline to enhance code readability and prevent issues from uninitialized fields. Two patterns are shown: inline initialization and using a static constructor. While both methods do not allocate memory, using a static constructor may slightly improve …
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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss what it means to take ownership in software engineering. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2025/12/21/what-does-taking-ownership-actually-mean-dev-leader-weekly-120
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Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#! Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2025/12/20/weekly-recap-20251220
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2025 was the year software teams stopped optimizing models and started optimizing systems. By December, a few truths were impossible to ignore. 1. Developer Productivity Became the Real Competitive Advantage By mid-year, every major AI lab had cleared the “good enough reasoning” bar. With model quality converging, the …
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This post looks at authentication and identity validation and describes what should be validated and some of the concepts. With the increasing push to move processes to a digital world and the new threat models, authentication and identity validation MUST be implemented in a professional way. Using standards like …
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ASP.NET Core 10 introduces native Server-Sent Events as a lightweight, HTTP-native alternative to SignalR for simple one-way real-time updates like dashboards and notifications. Link to article: https://www.milanjovanovic.tech/blog/server-sent-events-in-aspnetcore-and-dotnet-10
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Welcome to the December 2025 edition of the Azure Developer CLI (azd) release blog—our final release of the year! This post covers releases 1.22.0 through 1.22.5, wrapping up 2025. To share your feedback and questions, join the December release discussion on GitHub. Link to article: …
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Security vulnerabilities don't fix themselves. Someone needs to track them, prioritize them, and actually ship the fix. If you've ever tried to manage security alerts alongside your regular sprint work, though, you know the friction: you're looking at an alert in one tab, switching to your backlog in another, trying to …
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